Researchers have succeeded in reconstructing the skull of an individual from the family of early humans, discovered in ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

It's easy to take for granted that with the flick of a lighter or the turn of a furnace knob, modern humans can conjure flames — cooking food, lighting candles or warming homes. For much of our ...

“Early humans comprised a subdivided, shifting, pan-African meta-population with physical and cultural diversity,” read a statement on the research. “This framework better explains existing genetic, ...

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

In the heart of northern Zambia, a groundbreaking discovery at Kalambo Falls has redefined our understanding of early human ingenuity. Archaeologists ...